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Not OP, and US centric, but far left and far right are both united in seeing the status quo as their enemy, and both believe they're better able to harness any
by travmatt 9y ago
Not OP, and US centric, but far left and far right are both united in seeing the status quo as their enemy, and both believe they're better able to harness any chaos that will ensue from overthrowing it.
That's why you had Snowden and Jill Stein throwing soft support to Trump, telling their followers that the previous election was a choice between Goldman Sachs (who apprarently clinton represented) and freedom from banker rule (which apparently trump represented), and why you have Bernie supporters now attacking minority centrist candidates, who would be a challenge to him in democratic primaries.
It's pretty standard for any revolution, to be able to come together to kill the status quo without necessarily needing to agree on what would come next.
- matt4077 9y ago> but far left and far right are both united in seeing the status quo as their enemy That's just a truism. The extremes of the political spectrum are, by definition, not the mainstream that defines the status quo.
- travmatt 9y agoThen that truism should make it self evident why the far left and far right have the same goals.
- danharaj 9y ago"Once we throw out everything that makes them different, they're the same." Going 500 miles north of here is the same as going 500 miles south of here because they are both going away from here.
- travmatt 9y agoOr maybe people that have the same short term goals, actually have the same short term goals and should be treated as though they have the same short term goals. Other than the fact they have the same short term goals, they're totally different.